Crime novelists attend lunch
Two Australian crime novelists, Michael Robotham and Malla Nunn, will attend a lunch at Koolewong on Sunday, September 19.
Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts as part of a national author tour to encourage Australians to read more, tickets for the lunch will cost $50.
Umina bookstore owner Ms Mandi McIntosh said that Book Bazaar was lucky enough to be included in the campaign and is organising the lunch.
"Michael Robotham worked as an investigative journalist in Britain, Australia and the US before writing 15 autobiographies for well-known personalities."
He has written a string of award-winning novels.
Two of his most recent novels, The Night Ferry and Shatter, were short-listed for the UK Crime Writers Association Steel Dagger in 2007 and 2008."
In 2008, Shatter won the Ned Kelly award for Australia's best crime novel.
"Robotham's latest novel, Bleed for Me, was published in 2010.
"Malla Nunn grew up in Swaziland before moving with her parents to Perth in the 1970s.
"Her debut novel A Beautiful Place to Die was published to international acclaim and won the 2009 Sisters in Crime Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Novel by an Australian female author."
Press release, 25 Aug 2010
Mandi McIntosh, Book Bazaar